Re: [compost_tea] white sugar

From: <oliver_at_comnett.net>
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 13:58:50 -0800 (PST)

hi ok
could i put it in my compost pile or will it grow bad things there to
on molases i am able to get blackstrapp molases from my dad who owns a
health food store i heard that that is even better

Oliver
> Not a great choice, because it is a limited diversity of kinds of
> sugars. White sugar is refined aqnd typically nearly only sucrose,
> which is a chain of glucose and fructose. You want more foods than
> that, in order to feed a wider diversity of bacteria.
>
> The same reasons you don't eat refined white sugar anymore also hold s
> the same for soil/tea/compost organisms.
>
> Still, a little bit of sugar will be ok, just don't add much because
> the bacteria really take off on it, and can drop your oxygen badly.
> Some of the folks making compost tea would also say that simple sugars
> like that will encourage bacteria you don't want to grow. So maybe it
> is better to leave out the simple sugars all together.
>
> The only sugar I add to anything is molasses, because it contains a
> wide diversity of kinds of sugars, and some really recalcitrant kinds
> of sugar as well, which helps the fungi grow. We have a paper being
> presented at Biocycle this year about how molasses, at the right
> concentration, suppresses E. coli grow.
>
> Hope this helps -
>
> Elaine
> President, Soil Foodweb Inc.
> www.soilfoodweb.com
> SFI Oregon, USA
> SFI Australia
> SFI New York
> SFI Europe
> SFI New Zealand



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